The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
Source: wiktionary
Barbarize
//ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz//
Synonyms for "barbarize" (34 found)
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1 entriesTranslations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Italian
1 entries- barbarizzare verb (to cause to become savage)
Latin
1 entries- effero verb (to cause to become savage)
Polish
4 entries- barbaryzować verb (to cause to become savage)
- barbaryzować się verb (to become savave)
- barbaryzować się verb (to adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech)
- zbarbaryzować verb (to cause to become savage)
Slovak
1 entries- barbarizovať verb (to cause to become savage)
Spanish
1 entries- barbarizar verb (to cause to become savage)
Swedish
2 entries- barbarisera verb (to cause to become savage)
- förvilda verb (to cause to become savage)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
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